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brutalist

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bru⋅tal⋅ism

  [broot-l-iz-uhm]
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–noun
(in modern architecture) the aesthetic use of basic building processes with no apparent concern for visual amenity.
Origin:
1795–1805, for literal sense; brutal + -ism; in reference to architecture first used by British architects Alison Smithson (b. 1928) and Peter Smithson (b. 1923) in 1953

Related forms:
bru⋅tal⋅ist, noun, adjective
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Bru·tal·ism   (brōōt'l-ĭz'əm)   
n.  An architectural style of the mid-20th century characterized by massive or monolithic forms, usually of poured concrete and typically unrelieved by exterior decoration.
Bru'tal·ist n.
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